pool
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,792
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pool is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de choses, d'êtres, de personnes, pouvant être considéré comme agissant de façon cohérente. Pronounced \pul\. Often confused with pro and pop.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pool |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pul\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pool is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pul\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,792 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for pool, with forms such as "opol", "polo", and "pooll". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pro", "pop", "pot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pool, spelled P-O-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de choses, d'êtres, de personnes, pouvant être considéré comme agissant de façon cohérente.
- 2Source ou ensemble de ressources du même type.
- 3Jeu de longue haleine consistant à deviner qui sera le gagnant d'une joute sportive, ou qui seront les équipes ou les joueurs qui se démarqueront sur une saison entière.
- 4Jeu de longue haleine consistant à deviner ou prévoir qui sera le gagnant au final d'un affrontement, allant parfois même jusqu'au pointage des parties concernées.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opol,polo,pooll,ppool
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pool
Misspelling Variants of "pool"
Frequency rank: #17,792 in French
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